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12 novembre 2012

Zola Photographer

A fascinating book whose pages are filled with Emile Zolas's photographs. Zola took 700 hundred photographs from 1894 to his brutal death in 1902. This book illustrates Zola's life, shared between his two families: Alexandrine in Medan and Jeanne and...

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Tags: Medan, Verneuil, Zola, Denise Jacques, black white

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2 mars 2012

Susan Sontag, On photography

This book gathers several essays written by Susan Sonntag on her thoughts about photography. There is an isatiability of the photographing eye. The photographers choose for us what is worth looking at and what we have a right ot observe. Photograph is...

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Tags: photography, Susan Sonntag

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17 février 2012

Leon Vidal

Portrait of a Lady 1879, photochrome 129 x 89 mm - made with twelve superimposed colour printings. Leon Vidal (1834-1906) developped the photochrome printing process in the 1870s as a method of accurately colouring photographs for quantity reproduction....

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Tags: books, photography

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24 janvier 2012

Japanese photography at the end of the XIXth

The most poetic exhibition is in Venise, Palazzo Fianchetti (Campo Santo Stefano, 2842), the seat of the local institute of Sciences, literature and art, will host the exhibit called "La Fotografia del Giappone (1860 – 1910)", i.e. "The Photography of...

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Tags: photograph, hand-colourised, old japanese

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24 janvier 2012

Paths...

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Tags: photograph, venise

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10 novembre 2011

animals

a papier mache dog... a foil fish...

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Tags: art, photo

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10 novembre 2011

series

A serie is a way to tell a story. A story with images and no words. The red shoe. A rusty day.

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Tags: photograph, red shoes, stories

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